Environmental Science Past Students and Staff

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Natalie Baran
Natalie completed her masters thesis in 2001 on  "Effective survey methods for detecting plants".

Andrew Bearlin
Andrew finished his Honours thesis on "Environmental Risk Assessment using a stage-structured, stochastic population model for seagrass" in 1998. Following graduation he worked in the Freshwater Ecology Group at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research

Sarah Bekessy
Sarah completed  her PhD in 2002. Her topic was the conservation biology of the vulnerable and endemic South American Monkey Puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana). She is now a lecturer at RMIT Melbourne, teaching in environmental studies and sustainability.

Sjaan Bidwell
Sjaan was a member of our lab while she did her  PhD thesis (completed in 2001). It was on plants that are hyperaccumulators of heavy metals, and was supervised by Jens Sommer-Knudsen and Ian Woodrow.

Pep Blanks (now Turner)
Pep did her Honours thesis here in 1996 on modelling the distribution of bryophytes. She went on to do her PhD at the University of Tasmania with Prof Jamie Kirkpatrick and is now working at Forestry Tasmania

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Ryan Chisholm
Ryan completed his Honours thesis "Neutral Theory and Western Basalt Plains Grasslands" here in 2004.  He is currently studying his PhD at Princeton.

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Chris Davies
Chris's PhD thesis was on the power of survey and monitoring designs.

Tan Deneewat
Tan's MSc thesis was on structure and composition of a Thai forest. She since returned to Thailand.

Martin Drechsler
Martin was a postdoc here from 1996 to 1997. He worked on population models for a number of species including the orange-bellied parrot and  Banksia goodii. He subsequently worked at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

David Duncan
Dave spent 6 months with us while completing his PhD thesis.  He now works at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research.

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Carys Evans
Carys completed her honours with us in 2004.  She now works at the Department of Primary Industries.

Jo Evans
Jo did the research project for her masters in Environmental Science with us in 1999. It was on "Options and uncertainties for carbon emission trade in the mining and minerals industry". She now works in Canberra at the Australian Greenhouse Office.

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Kate Graham
Kate did her Honours year with us in 2000, developing an epidemiological model for Myrtle Wilt. She became a PhD student at Stirling University, Scotland and is now living in Croatia.

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Brooke Hecht
Brooke completed her masters thesis with us in 1998 on edge effects in forest patches. She completed her PhD at Yale studying "The Edge Paradox: A Zone of Order or Chaos? An Icelandic Case Study Investigating Forces Associated with Edges in Forest Landscapes"

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Courtney Johnson
Courtney was a forestry undergraduate student and did a project with us on the Eltham Copper Butterfly.

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Marie Keatley
Marie did her PhD on the flowering phenology of Eucalypts in Central Victoria, finishing in 1999. She is now working at the School of Forest and Ecosystem Science as an Adjunct Senior Fellow.

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Linda Lee
Linda finished her PhD in 1998 on "The feeding ecology of the orange-bellied parrot".  Since then she has worked in Brisbane with the Queensland Environment Protection Agency.

Nick Linacre
Nick finished his PhD in 2003 on mathematical risk assessment models for genetically modified organisms. He since moved to the USA.  Some of his research interests are outlined on his web page.

Prema Lucas
Prema finished her Honours thesis on "Population modelling of sambar deer in Lake Eildon NP"  in 2001.  Prema is now working with us as a research assistant.

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Mick McCarthy
Mick did his Honours and PhD theses with Mark and has worked with us as a postdoc. He now works at ARCUE, and we continue close collaboration with him. His home page is here.

Debbie McDonald
Debbie's PhD topic was on the dietary requirements of orange-bellied parrots and arboreal mammals. She went on to work on the nutritional ecology of zoo animals.

Rachel Martin
Rachel did her Honours thesis with us in 1996 on a "Spatial Analysis of Eucalypt dieback at Coranderrk, Victoria". She has just completed her masters as a student with us.

Peter Minchin
Peter shared the lab with us when he was working in Botany as a lecturer. He is now a Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Department Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Ayesha Moss
Ayesha completed her Honours with us in 2005.  She looked at predicting distributions of alpine plants.  Following her Honours, she spent three months as a field researcher in Alaska and is now working at a mapping company in Melbourne.

Hoa Nguyen
Hoa worked withus while working on his Masters thesis "A Population Viability Analysis for the Sarus Crane".

Emily Nicholson
Emily did her Honours thesis with us in 2001 on reserve design and conservation of threatened grasslands around Melbourne. She completed her post-doc with David Wilcove at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton and is now a Post-doctoral Research Associate.

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Jennie Pearce
Jennie did her PhD thesis with Mark on "The delineation and prediction of habitat, with particular reference to the endangered helmeted honeyeater".  She now works for the Canadian Forest Service in Ontario.

Joanne Potts
Jo completed her Honours thesis "A population viability analysis (PVA) for Leionema ralstonii (Rutaceae)" with us in 2003.  She is now completing her PhD at the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM) at St Andrews in Scotland.

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Dan Ramp
Dan finished his PhD thesis in 2001 with Graeme Coulson, Peter Minchin and Mark as supervisors. It was on kangaroo distribution and florsitic patterns at Yan Yean Reservoir. He now works at the University of New South Wales.

Nicolas Ray
Nicolas was a postdoc here from 2003 to 2004. He worked on the population dynamics of Sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) in Victoria, and on the subjective uncertainties associated with habitat suitability maps. He is now back in Switzerland as a postdoc in the Computational and Molecular Population Genetics Lab in Bern.

Cassia Read
Cassia did her Honours year with us in 1998 on "Assessment of floristic edge effects within fragmented dry sclerophyll forests of North Eastern Melbourne". Since then she has spent a year at Mark Westoby's lab and has worked at RMIT.  Cassia returned to our lab as a PhD student in 2005.

Helen Regan
Helen was a postdoc here from 1997 to 1999.  Helen is now Assistant Professor in Biology at San Diego State University. 

Tracey Regan
Tracey completed her PhD thesis with us, where she evaluated the performance of various methods used for estimating the risk of extinction.  She went on to complete a postdoc in Hugh Possingham's lab.  Tracey now works at NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

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Gabrielle Sandercock
Gabrielle did her Honours year with us, with Peter Minchin as her supervisor. Her thesis was on "The effectiveness of data transformations in indirect ordination". Unfortunately she passed away not long after she had completed her thesis.

Ruth Singer
Ruth finished her Honours with us in 1996 on "The regeneration ecology of Kunzea ericoides at Coranderrk Reserve, Healesville". She is now doing her PhD in linguistics. She is now a Postdoc at Department of Linguistics / Afdeling Taalwetenschap

Rob Smith
Rob finished his masters with us in 2000 on "An investigation into the relationships between anthropogenic forest disturbance patterns, population viability and landscape indices" with Mark and Ian Ferguson as his supervisors. He is now working for State Forests of NSW in Bathurst.

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Charles Todd
Charles submitted his PhD thesis "Tools for the conservation management of wildlife under uncertainty". He is now working in the Freshwater Ecology Group at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research.

Arn Tolsma
Arn did his Honours thesis with us in 1997 on "Measuring the success of gold mine rehabilitation in Victoria's box-ironbark forests".  He is now in Forestry at the University of Melbourne, finishing a PhD supervised by Kevin Tolhurst and Steve Read on "The effects of fire and grazing on the energy reserves of resprouting plants in Victoria's alpine grasslands". He now works at the Arthur Rylah Research Institute.

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Terry Walshe
Terry finished his PhD with us in 2001 on modelling disturbance dynamics in forested landscapes and designing management strategies for dealing with them. He went on to work in Albany, WA, as the manager of the Centre for Excellence, University of Western Australia. Terry is now working here as a postdoc on "Elicitation of alternative model structures in environmental contexts".

Debra Weddall
Deb did her Honours year with us 2000/2001.  Her topic was "Monitoring myrtle wilt: a cost-accuracy analysis of two survey techniques".

Didik Widyatmoko
Didik was a postdoc here for 18 months from 2003 to 2005.  He continued work commenced during his PhD into the population status, demography and habitat preferences of the threatened lipstick palm Cyrtostachys renda Blume, in Kerumutan Reserve, Sumatra.  He was also involved in the ARC funded project on the effects of global warming on Australian alpine plants. He is presently with The Bogor Botanical Gardens, Institute of Sciences.

Kuniko Yamada
Kuniko worked with us building a population model of Ibex in Pakistan.  She went on to work at Biosis Research.
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